A37575
Where possible from now on, try to be scheduled with a grade one instructor such as the CFI. Too many junior instructors, themselves inexperienced pilots, may hang on to you to earn more money dual and have difficulty due to their inexperience, to gauge when you are ready for first solo
If this statement sums up the general state of the play in Oz so far as instructors go then things are in a pretty sorry state.
Sure some of the flying schedule should be with the CFI but it's not practical for every student to fly all their lessons with the CFI.
Those junior instructors need to get experience, remember the Grade 1 was a junior instructor once. If the junior instructors have been trained properly and the Grade 1 or CFI is mentoring them properly there should not be any problems.
If the junior instructor doesn't have any idea when a student is ready to go solo then their training/mentoring is deficient. If the instructor is "hanging on to students in order to get more money then the CFI isn't doing their job properly.
I would hazard a guess that word would soon get around the students if any junior instructor was in the habit of "hanging on" to students for the instructors financial gain.
I would seriously question the value of a synthetic trainer at this early stage of flying.